{"id":286,"date":"2004-03-26T14:42:25","date_gmt":"2004-03-26T02:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=286"},"modified":"2004-03-26T14:42:25","modified_gmt":"2004-03-26T02:42:25","slug":"awethority-of-scripture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/286","title":{"rendered":"Awethority of scripture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The various Bible books were written to particular audiences. I read them, get a feeling for what was going on then, talk to friends at our Wednesday night Bible study, hear occasionally useful sermons, participate in a skeleton liturgy, read this list, read and write on various websites, read books, watch movies, listen to music and from all that get in some mysterious way get hints and guesses as to what my part in the story is. I lose the plot from time to time, but a feeling conviction of vocation (not unlike NTW&#8217;s answer to &#8211; Did Jesus know he was God?) grows in me and I walk through my days doing what my heart tells me, more or less. Is more or less required?<\/p>\n<p>A grid or specified set of layers of meaning divides up the experience of reading a book in ways that feel artificial, and obscure obliterate the gray.<\/p>\n<p>If the Bible has power in itself, I don&#8217;t need to read it differently (except perhaps more attentively closely) than I read <em>Anna Karenina<\/em>, yeah?<\/p>\n<p><small>[posted on <a title=\"you gots to be a member\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/Wrightsaid\/message\/4000\">Wrightsaid<\/a> first]<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The various Bible books were written to particular audiences. I read them, get a feeling for what was going on then, talk to friends at our Wednesday night Bible study, hear occasionally useful sermons, participate in a skeleton liturgy, read this list, read and write on various websites, read books, watch movies, listen to music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}